Ali Mohamed Shein

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix =

| name = Ali Mohamed Shein

| image = Ali Mohamed Shein, September 2014 (cropped).jpg

| image_size = 200px

| order = 7th

| office = President of Zanzibar

| term_start = 3 November 2010

| term_end = 3 November 2020

| 1blankname = {{Nowrap|Vice Presidents}}

| 1namedata = Seif Sharif Hamad {{small|(First)}}
Seif Ali lddi {{small|(Second)}}

| predecessor = Amani Abeid Karume

| successor = Hussein Mwinyi

| order2 = 8th

| office2 = Vice President of Tanzania

| term_start2 = 13 July 2001

| term_end2 = 3 November 2010

| president2 = Benjamin Mkapa
Jakaya Kikwete

| predecessor2 = Omar Ali Juma

| successor2 = Mohamed Gharib Bilal

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|03|13|df=y}}

| birth_place = Chokocho, Pemba, Zanzibar

| nationality = Tanzanian

| spouse = Mwanamwema Shein

| party = CCM

| children =

| residence = Zanzibar State House (former)

| education = Lumumba Secondary School

| alma_mater = Odesa University {{small|(MSc)}}
Newcastle University Medical School {{small|(PhD)}}

| profession = Medical doctor

| website = {{URL|www.ikuluzanzibar.go.tz}}

}}

Ali Mohamed Shein (born 13 March 1948) was the 7th President of Zanzibar,{{cite web |url=http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=22672 |title=Home |website=www.ippmedia.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123195910/http://ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=22672 |archive-date=2010-11-23}} from 2010 to 2020. He was previously Vice President of Tanzania from 2001 to 2010. Shein is originally from the island of Pemba, and he is a member of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party. He is a medical doctor by profession.

Political career

Shein was appointed by the President of Zanzibar to be a Member of the House of Representatives on 29 October 1995.

He was then appointed Deputy Minister of Health on 12 November 1995. From 6 November 2000, he was a Member of the House of Representatives at Mkanyageni Constituency in Zanzibar before being appointed to be a Minister of State, President's Office, Constitution, and Good Governance in Zanzibar on 22 November 2000, and Vice President of Tanzania in July 2001.{{cite web |url=http://tanzania-un.org/dynamicdata/data/docs/vp%20shein%20bio%20-%20cv%20-%2015.3.06.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=15 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728081714/http://tanzania-un.org/dynamicdata/data/docs/vp%20shein%20bio%20-%20cv%20-%2015.3.06.pdf |archive-date=28 July 2011 }}

Shein has been nominated by the ruling party CCM on 9 July 2010 as a presidential candidate for CCM in Zanzibar. Shein got 117 votes while Bilali and Shamsi Vuai Nahodha got 54 and 33 respectively and was elected a new president of Zanzibar and the only one from Pemba Island by 50.1% on 31 October 2010.{{Cite news|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201011020981.html|title=Tanzania: Isles Picks Shein for President|last=Mushi|first=Deogratias|date=2 November 2010|work=Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)|access-date=16 November 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017194357/http://allafrica.com/stories/201011020981.html|archivedate=17 October 2012|url-status=dead}}

Honours and awards

;Honorary degrees

College of Pathologists of East, Central and Southern Africa (COPECSA), September 2014{{cite news |date=27 September 2014 |title=Shein honoured for health contribution |url=http://www.dailynews.co.tz/index.php/local-news/36458-shein-honoured-for-shein-honoured-for-health-contribution-in-pathology |newspaper=Daily News |access-date=27 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111053141/http://dailynews.co.tz/index.php/local-news/36458-shein-honoured-for-shein-honoured-for-health-contribution-in-pathology |archive-date=11 November 2014 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.ikuluzanzibar.go.tz/highlights/view/dk.-shein-akabidhiwa-digrii-ya-heshima-ya-copecsa|title=Dk. Shein akabidhiwa Digrii ya heshima ya Copecsa|publisher=Ikulu Zanzibar|access-date=27 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013065758/http://www.ikuluzanzibar.go.tz/highlights/view/dk.-shein-akabidhiwa-digrii-ya-heshima-ya-copecsa|archive-date=13 October 2014|url-status=dead}}